Measuring Earth's Gravity Field: GOCE’s 'Heart' Starts Beating
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 07:22
in Astronomy & Space
GOCE's highly sensitive gradiometer instrument has been switched on and is producing data. Forming the heart of GOCE, the gradiometer is specifically designed to measure Earth's gravity field with unprecedented accuracy.
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